Hobby of necessity (giveaway)
*This giveaway has ended as of 12/16 midnight. Stay tuned for more giveaways soon! Winner’s info at the bottom of this post, along with the details on the lotion bar I’m so obsessed with 🙂 Thank you so much to everyone for entering!********************************************************************
For me, there are two types of hobbies:
1.) the kind you really, really love and
2.) the necessary ones.
When I was younger, I decided I was going to knit. Some of my friends could knit, I thought it was cool and decided to give it a whirl. It lasted about 4 seconds. I have the patience of Bella waiting for chicken and knitting wasn’t something I needed a reason to do. It’s hot in Tucson and my beanies and scarves get worn about twice a year.
The hobbies I really enjoy: teaching fitness, Zumba, cooking, reading, dance, etc
Necessary hobbies: photography and scrapbooking
Photography is a necessary hobby for the blog… I don’t really like it, or know what the heck I’m doing. I take a picture in “P” mode, auto-adjust the colors if it looks weird, and post. Some people get warm and fuzzy talking about aperture and shutter speed, and alas, I am not one of them. Scrapbooking has become another necessary hobby since the Pilot has been deployed 3 times and we always make scrapbook pages, and since we have a little one on the way, I’ve taken to online scrapbooking. The day we got our maternity photos back, I made photo books for madre, nana and baby, and had them shipped out. Was it fun? Not at all. Am I glad I did it? 100%.
I could see the same thing happening with the lotion bars I was trying to figure out how to make.
I had a sliver left, needed to replenish the stash, and couldn’t get a hold of the amazing woman who makes the lotions and soaps. So, I headed to the health food store for ingredients…. and then she called me back. Thank goodness making lotion bars didn’t have to become a necessary hobby 😉
I ordered an extra one for a lucky blog friend <3
To make the giveaway a little sweeter, I’d also like to share my #1 pregnancy must-have with the winner:
A snoogle!
The bonus about this giveaway is that you don’t have to be expecting a little one to enjoy. Everyone could use a rich, buttery, lotion bar made with real ingredients and the comfiest body pillow ever invented.
Congratulations to the winner!
For those of you who were curious about the lotion, I talked to the woman who makes them today to make sure it was cool to share her info, since she doesn’t have an Etsy shop or anything like that. She makes AMAZING products (lotions and soaps) and my fave is the bitter almond lotion bar. You break off a piece, heat it up with your hands and rub it on 🙂
Here’s her email address if you’d like to order something from her:
bbilleaudeau@vtc.net
Her name is Giselle and she can ship in the US, in the winter, as the bars will melt in the summer heat.
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Hobbies: Yoga, cooking, reading.
Due Date: May 5th 🙂
Great Giveaway!
Favorite Hobby: volleyball, running, baking,reading blogs!!
Hobby’s of neccesity: cleaning, laundry, dishes – all the fun stuff that no one really likes to do!
I’m due June 6, and have just entered the can’t-sleep-sore-hips phase. Is making me grouchy! But that doesn’t keep me from my favorite hobbies of cooking and eating…and eating…
Favorite hobby lately is definitely yoga! I feel so amazing after a class.
Ella is 7 1/2 months and I need that lotion bar but I need a snoogle even more! My hips still aren’t right and it won’t be too long before we try for baby #2 🙂
my favorite hobbies are baking (plus eating the treats, of course?) and also, I love reading.
Hobbies of love include reading (when I have time… ), painting/drawing. I haven’t had much time lately as I work two jobs (one of them my own business).
Hobbies of necessity: chores around the house (dishes, laundry etc)
I am due June 12, 2012 with our first little one.
Its funny because I LOVE your necessary hobbies, Photography and scrapbooking! Although, I have recently made a forway into the world of online scrapbooking as well. I also love decorating cakes, reading, rollerblading and ZUMBA!!! So fun 😀
Hobbies I love: spin, running, reading
Necessary: trying to find an organizational method that works….
Due Date: July 21st (guess I’m making that public 🙂 )
My hobbies cooking, playing with my little maltese/yorkie, eating chocolate, and anything fitness related.
I am due April 13th- it’s a boy!
One of my friends SWEARS by this pillow … and the funny thing is that her husband actually stole that snoogle from her when she was pregnant! 🙂 She had to fight big time to get it back each time 😉 I am not expecting yet but I’d love to within the next two years … Okay so my “fun hobbies” are baking, yoga and reading (circuit training is becoming more popular – and I am going to join a gym next week that has Zumba so I am excited to try that!). The “necessary hobbies” are learning to love cooking more (I am just more of a baking girl) and cleaning. I absolutely love a clean flat or an organized place – but to do it or actually keep it that way, that’s hard (especially when you’ve got a lovely but very messy boyfriend). I now check your blog every day, impatiently waiting for the little lady’s arrival 🙂
My hobbies are running and working out. My kids are 2 and 6. I have sciatica and I think that pillow would be awesome! 🙂
My favorite hobby would be walking my dog… Knitting… And sewing. Now If I only had more time to do them!! I’m due in June!
You seriously have the best give aways ever! I love to read – I know, I’m a loser, but it’s seriously my favorite. I guess I’d say that cooking/baking is my necessary one, because I go back and forth between loving it and being annoyed with doing it. Um, but eating is both a necessary and awesome/fun hobby! 🙂
my new favorite hobby is crafting. i love it!! especially around the holidays.
Hobbies:
Hiking, Crafting (I’m not that “skilled”, but I always do homemade Christmas gifts– usually involving sewing), Baking, and I’m with you on the Photography! I have a 3 year-old and family scattered all over the country, so that is definitely a necessity.
Due Date:
May 30- and my belly is itching like craaaazzzzy! Also, I can’t find my boppy preggo pillow from last time- it’s buried somewhere in my storage unit- so this giveaway was calling my name!
I live in the greater Seattle area, anyone that knows anything about Seattle, besides the fact that it rains is that we LOVE the outdoors! So biking, hiking, swimming, walking anything to do with being outside is a MUST hobby for me! My daughter is 16 months old and we are currently still thinking about baby #2.
My hobbies of pure enjoyment are reading, baking, cooking, travelling, music/concerts, & sometimes running & weight lifting.
My hobbies of neccessity include running & weight lifting (b/c I go through phases where I don’t really want to do it), meal planning (I love to cook but hate to plan ahead!), & cleaning.
I don’t have any kids, but my husband & I talk about maybe starting a family some day soon!
Hobbies: exercise, cooking, meditation.
My daughter is one! Didn’t have that pillow when I was pregnant with her, would love it for the next time!
I, too, have tried knitting… anything that makes me want to swear that much is probably not the best hobby for me!!! But I can crochet like nobody’s business… and I love to make pretty scarves out of fun yarn and have recently started making little animals that make the perfect soft toy for little ones 🙂
Hobbies: reading, exercising, baking bread, making yogurt,
My fur-baby is 11, and my good friend, who’ll likely get the body pillow if I win it, is due to have her first bambino on 6.12.12.
My favorite hobbies are baking, reading, traveling, and running!
And I have a little girl who is 10 months, and I have been having back pain since I started working out more regularly again so I would LOVE that pillow!
Hobbies: Running, Cycling, reading, scrapbooking…I have too many hobbies 😉
So want to have a baby….working on the husband!
My favorite hobbies are keeping up to date on the latest nutrition information, cooking, and blogging!
Running! It’s necessary to keep me sane, but I love it so much that it doesn’t feel necessary.
Would love to try a more natural stretch mark prevention! I am 16 weeks with #2, baby girl #1 is 2 years old.
My due date is Mar 15th … would so appreciate that bar and that snoogle!
I don’t really have any hobbies, though I have tried knitting a million times and just can’t get into it. I was hoping the thought of wrapping my little one in homemade hats and booties would inspire me, but I’m almost 7 months along and still no hand-knit goodies!
Oh WOW!! I am almost 9 weeks pregnant so this is definitely the most exciting giveaway I have ever entered! Thank you so much, Gina.
My favorite hobbies are reading, hiking and music. My due date is estimated to be July 20th which happens to be me and my Husband’s anniversary 😀 I can’t think of a better gift for it. <3
Fav hobbies: reading, crafting, running, baking, cooking
Necessary: Meal planning – I’m more of a fly by the seat of my pants type, but planning definitely helps with keeping the budget on track!
Favorite hobbies: Cooking, Reading, and biking! Its definitely my favorite form of exercise
My favorite hobby is scrapbooking and I love to do it! It’s not one of those things that you can do all the time but I love sitting there when I have plenty of time and scrapbooking for hours.
Due Date: January 27th!
My favorite hobby is dancing and teaching lindy-hop, the original 1930s swing dance!
My favorite hobbies are cooking and shopping (does that count as a hobby??)
I love doing crafts, sewing, cooking, blogging, and anything DIY.
Thank you for the giveaway! I’m not pregnant (yet) but I would love to give this prize to a good friend at work who is after 3 years of trying. She’s due in May!
My favourite hobbies are knitting and jewellery making, I could do them all day! I would say the necessary hobby that I don’t so much look forward to is exercise. I always am so glad I did it after I’m done, but I don’t look forward to it very often. It’s something I’m working on though!
my hobbies are crossfit, cooking, reading, traveling, and watching movies/tv!
Agh! I really would love these. I told my husband last night that all I want for Christmas is a Snoogle and Nachos. I am due on May 8th and will find out what we are having next Thursday! My favorite hobbies are running and spending quality time with my google reader reading design and new Mommy blogs…
Hobbies (current): reading, design, organizing
Out of necessity, but I still love after I do them: running, CrossFit.
Favorite hobbies include: playing guitar, running, scrapbooking! Where I used to live there was a “snip till you snap” class that was so fun to do with friends! You’d go from 6-10pm, you could bring wine, use their stencils/stamps/dye cuts (buy or bring your own paper, stickers, etc.) and just hang out with your girlfriends all night. So fun!
Favorite fun hobby for me is hands down, vintage shopping. I regularly block off whole Saturday mornings to shop-hop and find treasures. A necessity hobby I’ve developed over the past few years is crafting – in college, I had no money for birthday or Christmas gifts, so I started making them. I’m not in college anymore, but I’m still broke, so the hobby has remained.
I have no kids and I’m not expecting… but the Snoogle looks amazing! 🙂
I love to cook and sew! I don’t have any little ones yet but hopefully soon!
Favorite Hobbies: Running & baking
Does hiking count as a hobby? If so, that’s my favorite, followed by scrapbooking…the perfect way to document our backcountry adventures. Hopefully very soon I’ll get to scrapbook a different kind of little bundle of adventure, so I would LOVE the snoogle and body bar!
My newest hobby is bike riding in Central Park, love it! While I am not actually expecting, my sister is expecting her first little boy in April! I can’t wait to be an Aunt and I know she’d love these gifts! I actually sent her the link to your blog on a few occasions (like revealing the sex with the cupcakes!), and literally JUST sent her a link to snoogle and said you highly recommend!
I love cooking but hate clothes shopping.. oops.
What an awesome giveaway!! My daughter turns two on Dec 27th and we are going to start trying for another one next year.
My favorite hobbie is cooking,
My favourite hobbies are reading, writing, and paint-by-numbers … the really hard ones haha.
Hobbies — cooking for sure. Very basic sewing — pillows, hems, etc. — but I enjoy it. Just got back from Hawaii and brought back some fabric I am going to attempt to make a duvet cover and pillow shams with. And absolutely reading. No due date but we do have a fur baby named Chance. The shelter told us he was 6 or 7 when we adopted him — but out vet thinks he is at least ten. We tease him about lying about his age.
My fun hobbies are photography, video games, writing, reading, cooking and shopping! My son is almost 7 weeks old and we most certainly aren’t trying for another one anytime soon. He’s a handful!
Fav hobbies: Crafts, walking the dog, working out, shopping…
Working on the baby thing. 🙂
Favorite hobbies: painting(!!), writing, reading, swimming, zumba, cooking and walking Lando with Hubby.
Out of necessity: vacuuming the apartment. lol. i’m strange.
No children, but that might be changing next year. lol.